To celebrate we're going whole hog to introduce you to as many new bands we love in one week as possible. Sadly we've only managed to muster most of this action up in London but coaches are cheap and if you get really stuck and really wanna come down from faaar away, some of our staff and readers have sofas/floors.

Heres your link-loaded guide to birthday happenings, including links to websites and audio. See you next week...

Tues 30th SEPTEMBER 2003 [Monthly Hi-Jack]
@ Club Fandango, Dublin Castle, Camden (clubfandango.co.uk)
Doors: 8pm
Price: £5 / £4 with a flyer. THE ROBOCOP KRAUS
...formed in Germany in 1998 and have built themselves a bit of a cult reputation from relentless gigging round Europe and Japan. Their abrasive sound has recently drawn lazy comparisons to Radio 4 and The Cure, and their new album 'Living With Other People' is released this month, which even the folks at the NME gave 8/10. This is only their second London gig and the first night of their DiS-sponsored uk tour. ON STAGE AT 10.15PM
Web: therobocopkraus.de / Audio: 'Fashion'HOOKERS GREEN #1
...are a collective from Aberdeen who've been flooring all and sundry with their three-track demo which is, by turns, haunting, studious, abstract, quaint, scatty, powerful and, quite frankly, amazing. This will be their first London gig. ON STAGE AT 9.30PM
Audio: 'Love Ballad for The Cold Robot'
Web: geocities.com/hookersgreenoneREAGAN
...are the fitting combination of synth-driven old skool Primal Scream and nu school Radiohead. They have supported The Cooper Temple Clause, Kid Galahad, King Prawn, 80's Matchbox B-Line Disaster, and, best of all, Bez. ON STAGE AT 8.45PM
Audio: 'With The Current' / Web: reaganised.com

Then an allnight Birthday even party @ White Heat. Lots of discount drinks and quality tunes. Full Details Here!.

Weds 1st OCTOBER 2003 [3rd Birthday Party!]
@ The Spitz, E1 (spitz.co.uk)
Doors: 8pm
Price: £6 on the door / £5 advance(+booking fee) BUY TICKETSCARINA ROUND
...there are some artistes that once they enter your life, you just want more and more. Carina is one of those people who has obsessive fans already. Her debut album 'First Blood Mystery' was criticially acclaimed and compared to Nina Simone, Mazzy Starr, Pj Harvey, and even Gemma Hayes. The new album 'The Disconnection' (out on Dehisce, October 6th), we think sounds more like Cat Power cuddling Jeff Buckley. Carina has established herself as an outstanding live act and we're very excited to have her playing our party.
Audio: n/a / Web: carinaround.co.ukHOOKERS GREEN #1
...as above. Because they've come down such a long way and we like them a lot, we thought we'd make it worth their while and give 'em two shows.
Audio: 'Love Ballad for The Cold Robot'
Web: geocities.com/hookersgreenone+ Guest Dj: Ollie from Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia...

Sat 4th OCTOBER 2003 [The Loud Alldayer]
@ The Windmill, Brixton (windmillbrixton.co.uk)
Doors: 4pm - Late
Price: £4 (includes free BBQ). TODD
Brash, loud, funny.
We said he: "pummels you with the autistic intensity of Suicide, while scaring you with the acid-fried lunacy of the Butthole Surfers, straddling the line between genuine freak-show and deliberate mind-fuck, a carcrash Frankenstein's monster of Krautrock and classic rock carnage."
Audio: n/a / Web: n/a
AFTER THE SILENCE
Are the subject of much A&R interest, having only
played one London gig in the past. The Sheffield
four-piece have been compared to the Cooper Temple
Clause without all the crap samples.
Audio: Queen of Troubled Teens / Web: afterthesilence.co.ukPANDA LOVE UNIT
Young and drunk and from Birmingham, who recently
released their debut single on Awkward Records.
They're a bit Sonic Youth, a bit Seafood.
Audio: Knowledge Is... / Web: pandaloveunit.tkYOUR CODENAME IS:MILO
packed a recent London gig full of industry and
journalists. They're much-liked by 'Rock Sound',
despite still being unsigned. They are from Newcastle.
Audio: n/a / Web: yourcodenameismilo.co.ukTHE NEXT AUTUMN SOUNDTRACK
Verge from post-rock to more angular guitar and emo
shouting, and they are very very good indeed.
Audio: Lost Fondly / Web: thenextautumnsoundtrack.com

Sun 5th OCTOBER [The Quiet(er) Alldayer]
@ The Windmill, Brixton (windmillbrixton.co.uk)
Doors: 4pm - Late
Price: £4 (includes free BBQ)TRADEMARK
Three males who make songs with synthesizers. Every
sound is carefully programmed in their lab & then
recorded & placed into its own special space in the
song. Perfect vocal melodies are then added to the
formula. This is done totally without the use of
presets. Onstage: 10pm
Audio: 'Sine Love' /
Web: trademark-online.co.ukAMITYVILLE
The new band fronted by the vocally gifted ex-frontman
of Geneva. Kinda like Crazy Horse with added Jonny
Greenwood, a hint of 'Mezzanine', topped off with a
voice like a ferociously sharp, diamond-studded
circular saw that will take your head clean off.
Onstage:9pm
Audio: n/a / Web: amityvilleuk.com*special guests*
When they're not having their photos taken for all the
style mags (see 'Dazed And Confused', 'The Face' etc),
they are swashbuckling punks who recently came off tour with Electric Six. Onstage:8pm
THE AFTERNOONS
Welsh septet who have a new album out which is a mini
Super Furry Animals-meets-powerpop classic. Onstage:
7pm
Audio: n/a / Web: dockrad.comSHIP'S A GOING DOWN
New instrumental post-rock combo from Essex, tipped
for big things by their peers. Onstage:6pmAIRPORT GIRL
Influences range from the Scottish pop of Belle &
Sebastian and The Pastels to the American flavours of
Jonathan Richman and Pavement, with an added dose of
The Go-Betweens. Onstage: 5pm
Audio: n/a / Web: airportgirl.comGuest DJs: JOHNNY BOY
..a duo recently signed to Mercury Records, who you
will be hearing a lot more of in future.